HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 03-04-1998 - 6aORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Action Agenda
Item No. ~A,
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: March 4, 1998
SUBJECT: PROCLAMATION FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
DEPARTMENT: Human Rights & Relations PUBLIC HEARING: _ Yes xx No
BUDGET AMENDMENT NEEDED: _ Yes xx No
ATTACHMENT(S):
Women's History Month Proclamation
INFORMATION CONTACT:
Oliver Melvin, ext. 2252
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough - 732 -8181
Chapel Hill - 967-9251
Durham - 688-7331
Mebane - 227-2031
PURPOSE: To officially recognize Mazch, 1998, as Women's History Month in Orange
County.
BACKGROUND:
The Orange County Commission for Women has historically celebrated Women's
History Month as a significant occasion for recognizing and honoring the contributions
women have made to our community, state, and nation, and in doing so, to continue to
promote the status of women in Orange County. This year, 1998, also marks the 150th
Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement in the United States. The first
Women's Rights Convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, and the
Declaration of Sentiments issued by that Convention launched a movement that has
forever changed this nation and the lives of its women.
RECOMMENDATION(S): That the Boazd approve the Proclamation and authorize the
Chair to sign.
THE ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSION FOR WOMEN SUBMITS THE FOLLOWING
PROCLAMATION TO THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS:
WHEREAS 1998 will mazk the 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement in the
United States, a bold and courageous civil rights movement that began in 1848 in Seneca
Falls, New York, at the first Women's Rights Convention ever held; and
WHEREAS the Declaration of Sentiments issued by that Convention represents a work as
fundamental to our nation's commitment to liberty and personal freedom as does our
Declaration of Independence; and
WHEREAS the resulting Women's Rights Movement has had a profound and undeniable impact
on all aspects of American life, and has opened new and well-deserved opportunities for
women in all fields of endeavor; and
WHEREAS the full history of this century-and-a-half of efforts now spanning seven generations
of unceasing work to achieve equality for fully half the American population still, regrettably,
remains unknown and unrecognized by our nation's citizens; and
WHEREAS the girls and boys of today, together, have lives faz richer and far fairer as a direct
result of the Women's Rights Movement, yet they have scant opportunity to know the
heroines, heroes, and lessons of this vital movement through the textbooks of most
classrooms; and
WHEREAS the twenty-first century will find anever-increasing need for both women and men
to shaze in the fundamental responsibilities for our national life acid the blessings that must
result from full and equal participation in society; and
WHEREAS there still remain substantial barriers to the full equality of America's women before
our freedom as a nation can be called complete:
NOW, THEREFORE, do we, the Commissioners of Orange County, proclaim the month of
Mazch, 1998, as
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
and recognize the year of 1998 as the
150th A1~INIVERSARY OF THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
and commend this observance to Orange County's citizens.
This the fourth day of Mazch, 1998.
Margaret Brown, Chair